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Broadband: Turning Red Tape into Red Carpet
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates Silicon Valley leaders look to Santa Cruz for broadband leadership Santa Cruz shows Silicon Valley a better path. Santa Cruz County’s broadband initiative is one of the ten best […]
Glowing Art Form – What’s Glove Got To Do With It
By Abe Karplus and Zohar Wouk Futuristic Lights [Editor’s note: 12/15/14 Update: The Kickstarter campaign launched at 12 noon on Friday, December 12, and these guys met their $20K goal in 30 minutes, folks! As […]
Thimbleweed Park: Gaming Like It’s 1987
by Logan Booth The Satellite Centers [Editor’s note: Santa Cruz Tech Beat published Garden of Gaming in Santa Cruz is Tilled and Ready for Growth on April 15, 2014. Add this new venture to the […]
Modarri Cars: For the Kidult in You
by Bridget Oates Freelance Journalist [Editor’s note: Santa Cruz Tech Beat has published articles about Modarri Cars in the past as the company formed, designed, and planned to manufacture the car. The current news is […]
5 Questions with Doug Erickson
By Matthew Swinnerton Event Santa Cruz Doug Erickson, founder of the popular Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup, talks about what’s next for the Meetup, Hack UCSC, and more Matthew: So Doug, when and why did […]
UC Santa Cruz creates new Department of Computational Media
by Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz (Michael Mateas, above, is chair of the new Department of Computational Media. Photo credit: C. Lagattuta) New department builds on the success of the campus’s pathbreaking programs in games […]
Round-the-clock work on new Ebola genome browser
by Guy Lasnier UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute releases bioinformatic tool to assist vaccine efforts The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Tuesday (September 30, 2014) released a new Ebola genome browser to […]
How do Santa Cruz and Monterey wages compare?
By Jim Johnson The Compensation Depot [Editor’s note: Santa Cruz Tech Beat published Jim Johnson’s How do Santa Cruz wages really compare to Silicon Valley? on September 11, 2014.] WHY do Transit Bus Drivers in […]
Plantronics and Cityblooms collaborate on sustainable agriculture project
by Sara Isenberg Publisher, Santa Cruz Tech Beat, publisher Automated hydroponic micro-farm grows nutritious produce on the Plantronics campus Through a joint project with Santa Cruz-based Cityblooms, a prototype computer-automated farm has been installed at […]
UC proposes $250M venture fund for faculty- and student-led startups
[Editor’s note: Although UC Santa Cruz isn’t able to discuss the specific impacts yet, it sounds like this is the first concrete step in Janet Napolitano’s initiative on “commercial applications for UC research and innovations” […]